Tomasz Czeslaw Winkowski (28) is on trial after customs officers intercepted a package containing 96 ecstasy tablets that had been posted to his Jersey address in February. Winkowski, who was on holiday in Poland at the time, was later arrested and one of his fingerprints was found inside the cassette box. Introducing the prosecution case yesterday, Crown Avocate Conrad Yates said that the package was addressed to Winkowski’s flat with a similar name to his. Advocate Yates’s only witness, Customs Officer Jonathon Gready, also told the court that Winkowski had admitted carrying some money to Poland for a friend of his flatmate. Advocate Michael Haines, defending, told the court that Winkowski was not involved in drug smuggling and had been implicated in a plot organised by his flatmate, who had since disappeared.
